Improvement in blanks for horseshoes



" UNITED STATES PATENT l OFFICE.

JACOB EussELL, or NEw YORK, N. Y;

IMPROVEMENT IN BLANKS FOR HORSESHOES.

Speciication forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,146, dated January 6, 1874; application filed September 16, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB RUSSELL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Blanks of rolled bariron for making Horseshoes therefrom; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full` formed by welding a suitable piece of metall to the lower front edge of the shoe. To prevent the shoe from slipping when fitting it to the hoof of the horse, a shoulder of metal is gouged from the upper front edge of the shoeplate, so as to form asolid andfirm support for the toe of .the horse to brace against.y When the shoe is nailed to the hoof, as this shoulder of metal or toe support is wholly drawn up from the body of the plate its effects are to weaken the shoe at that point. My invention is therefore designed to remedy this defect in the construction of horseshoes. And the nature of my invention consists in the new article of manufacture of horseshoeblanks from rolled bar-iron, having formed thereon at the time of rolling the bar of iron a toe-supporting reserve of metal, whereby, in forming the support on the shoe-plate for the toe of the horses foot to brace against, the body of it will not be diminished in strength, as would be the case if gouged out of the body of the plate, as is the common practice.

But to describe my invention more particularly, I will refer to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, the same letters of reference, wherever they occur, referring to like parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the horseshoe blank. Fig. 2 is a transverse cut section of the same through the linea' m, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the blank when bent into the shoe-shape. Fig. 4 is a view, showing the 1n the ordinary toe-supporter formed thereon. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of an ordinary horseshoe, showing the toe-supporter` as gouged out of the shoe-plate. Fig. 6 is a `cut sectional view of the same through the line m2 x2, Fig. 5, showing the cavity formed in the shoe-plate to form the toe-supporter. y

Letter A represents a flat bar of metal,.of such suitable width and thickness, as well as weight, as may be required for the various kinds of horseshoes to be made. These bars are formed in the usual rolling-mills, and of such convenientlength as willadmit of being cut into some ten, or more or less number of lengths or blanks for forming a horseshoe.`

These lengths or blanks are about twelve inches long. In forming the horseshoe, and to support and steady it on the horses foot, it is customary to form a toe-supporter, B, on the front upper edge of the shoe-plate, by gouging` a piece of metal out of the plate, as shown at c, Figs. 5 and 6. As will be obvious, this greatly weakens the plate, and especially at a point of the shoe requiring the most strength. To obviate this weakening of the plate, a reserve of metal, D, is formed on the upp er fr cpt edge of the blank, at the proper point, in the process of making or forming `the bar of metal in the rolling-mill. By this means the toe- Having now described my invention, I will proceed to set forth what Iclaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States.

I claimy The new article of manufacture of horseshoe rolled-metal blanks having a toe-supporting` reserve of metal, D, thereon, when formed in the process of rolling the bar of metal, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

JACOB R USSELL.

Witnesses R. ROWLEY, Y CHARLES L. BAREITT. 

